About ten years ago, after viewing the "Foundational Falsehoods of Creationism" series on YouTube.

A lot of music I listened to growing up expressed ideas against the belief in a god.

After I read the Bible and saw people needed to make excuses and do mental gymnastics to cover up the fact it was contradictory and is completely untrue if taken literally.

I began to doubt in my early teens when conformation /Catholic school happened. That's after regular school mind you. It's a long srory

When I saw the light... After much prayer and bible study.

When dinosaurs weren't in the bible, 12ish.

I never had a lightbulb moment where I knew I didn't believe. I wasn't raised religious, I thought I believed in god because I knew I was supposed to, even though it didn't make sense to me. I was lucky to meet a man who was an agnostic, he was the one who made me realize I didn't HAVE to believe.
I didn't really realize atheism was an option before that. So I started thinking about it, the more I thought, the more I questioned.
I am now, and have been for about 13 years, absolutely atheist. I will never believe in a god, and even if somehow, some way it turned out there was a god, I would never worship him.

Also, that agnostic man is now my ex husband but still my best friend, and we are together but separately raising two amazing children who have the option of free-thinking and deciding for themselves who and what they believe.

Sept 25 1997. The day my grandfather died. Started as hate and resent and then reexamining my beliefs before becoming total nonbeliever